![]() For the purposes of her article, Barnes stays neutral on this controversy by defining disability ostensibly with reference to paradigms like mobility impairments and deafness. First, there’s a theoretical controversy about what disability is. It’s easy to get the gist of this “mere-difference view,” but formulating it more precisely faces a couple of hurdles. Is a disability a misfortune? A cause for condolences? Not according to many activists in the disability pride movement, and not according to Elizabeth Barnes in “Valuing Disability, Causing Disability.” Rather than seeing disability as an inherently bad state, Barnes defends the idea that disability is merely a different way for humans to be. ![]() Critical Précis of Elizabeth Barnes’s “Valuing Disability, Causing Disability.” ![]()
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